Isolde Raftery
Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Managing Editor at KUOW since 2024. Previously at KUOW, she was online managing editor, investigations team editor, and web editor.
She has reported for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk), and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state.
Isolde attended James A. Garfield High School in Seattle and later graduated from Barnard College in New York City. She received a Master's degree in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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5 things about Gov. Jay Inslee that you almost definitely don’t know
Frank Inslee, Jay’s dad, was a biology teacher at Garfield High School, at the heart of Seattle’s historically black neighborhood, and he taught Jimi Hendrix.
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The end is nigh. The rain has come
Cold drops of rain have started to fall.
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More snow this morning! And more snow coming!
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Luke Skywalker himself tells Seattle how to survive snowpocalypse
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Temps drop and Seattle panics: What about the hummingbirds?!
This story was originally published exactly two years ago, February 10, 2019. Scroll down for an update.
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As snow falls, Seattle stocks up on de-icer, avocados and ... weed
Sales were also way up at Hashtag Cannabis, the marijuana dispensary with a store in Fremont. Sales on Thursday and Friday were double what the company expects for this time of year.
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Seattle hears snow forecast, descends on grocery stores like the apocalypse is coming
At the Safeway in the University District, salt was completely sold out. “And it’s not just the rock salt,” said Steve Bailey, who was stocking shelves. “What was weird is that every single table salt was bought in one day.”
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UW student who fell on campus died of natural causes, medical examiner says
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Seattle so pretty in snow: Photos you shared with us
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PHOTOS: Snow day! School is out and sleds are in
This was supposed to be a story about how Seattle's long-awaited, deep bore tunnel is FINALLY OPEN.